Protection Gear vs Retribution Gear ?

Dear MMO-Champion community,

i just got level 90 with my Paladin but i'm not sure what gear i should roll for.
Since the prot stat priority is almost the same as the retribution one.
Should i roll on items with mastery dodge , and reforge to haste or should i go straight for mastery haste items ?
I already looked into the Protection guide but i couldn't find a answer.

Take a look at Theck's continued work at http://sacredduty.net/2012/12/18/dam...s-round-three/ if you want better information. Basically, as long as you're at the hit and expertise caps and are reforging dodge and parry into haste and mastery, you're good to go. It's okay to have "balanced" gear as long as you've hit the caps.

As for the prot set bonuses, definitely go for them. They're always a gain, though not always easily quantifiable.

Thank you very much for that link that helped me alot . I Guess i know how to Gear up now .

I also recommend looking at Elitistjerks.com. Note that I say look at, not necessarily post there, because they will hand out infractions like candy if you don't follow their rules. They expect proper grammar and spelling across the board for example.

There's also http://maintankadin.failsafedesign.com/forum/, but it's down for me and saying there's an SQL error. Dunno if it'll give anyone else the same problems. Regardless, it's a forum dedicated mainly to paladin tanking as one might guess by the name.

Theck posts fairly regularly on both, and since he's the main guy crunching prot pally numbers the sites are good reads.

Those Rets who don't know (or can't accept) the fact that Prot likes everything but crit tend to get pissy, but most should realize by now that prot will be rolling on similar gear so they only make about the same fuss as when there's another DPS rolling on it and they want to be selfish.

It's still a fair amount of reduction, even if it is proc based. The amount of haste allows for a pretty large amount of SoTR usage.

I don't play prot a lot since we got done with challengemodes, but I'm sure lei shens and stuff of nightmares are both better for prot.
The problem with DMV is that the haste procc can go to waste completely on fights with tank swaps (almost every fight this tier?) and that it's on almost a 2 minute ICD.

I don't play prot a lot since we got done with challengemodes, but I'm sure lei shens and stuff of nightmares are both better for prot.

I'd assume it has something to do with the fact that a RNG procc to increase a RNG stat isn't very good, which is why it's extremely weird that the "tank" trinkets this tier both have the same 2 secondary stats.

I'd assume it has something to do with the fact that a RNG procc to increase a RNG stat isn't very good, which is why it's extremely weird that the "tank" trinkets this tier both have the same 2 secondary stats.

There's also the quirk that strength gives almost as much parry as parry rating itself for plate-wearers, so traditionally DPS trinkets are getting repurposed since they can actually compete a bit. Not that parry is something to really shot for though, especially unreforgeable parry.

I don't play prot a lot since we got done with challengemodes, but I'm sure lei shens and stuff of nightmares are both better for prot.
The problem with DMV is that the haste procc can go to waste completely on fights with tank swaps (almost every fight this tier?) and that it's on almost a 2 minute ICD.

Yeah, but this isn't even taking into account the huge amount of damage prot paladins already do. Adding a dps trinket that isn't too bad on mitigation isn't a terrible idea. Most likely they'll do more damage with it than a Ret unfortunately.

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Yeah, but this isn't even taking into account the huge amount of damage prot paladins already do. Adding a dps trinket that isn't too bad on mitigation isn't a terrible idea. Most likely they'll do more damage with it than a Ret unfortunately.

Especially as the ICD would co-incide with Holy Avenger if used at the beginning of the fight, and another 15% haste would be a massive burst damage boost.